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GAME-CARDS.

Application led December 16, 1915.

To all whom t may concern.

Be it known that I, NEVA-RAE RUSSELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at University Place, in the county of Lancaster and State of Nebraska, have invented `certain new and useful Improvements in Ga1ne-Cards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to games and has for its object to provide a new and interesting as well as instructive card game.

The invention consists of a plurality of series of suit cards bearing designations indicating a certain city and the number of miles traveled by the player in reaching that place, each card also bearing a designation peculiar te all the cards of the different suits or series and a plurality of honor cards bearing designations distinguishing them from each other and from the suit cards and all of the cards being designed to be included in a single pack adapted to be shuffled and dealt to players.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figures 1, 2, 3, 4f and 5 are plan views of all the cards of a series or suit.

Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are plan views of a single card of each of the other three series or suits and Figs. 9, 10, 11 and 12 are plan views of the honor cards.

Referring more specifically to the drawings in which like reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, 5 designates a series of ve suit cards 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 respectively, each of which bears a common distinguishing mark which, iii the present embodiment is an airship 11. These five cards each bear the name of a city as at 12 and are numbered consecutively from 1 to 5 which nume bers represent the number of miles a player is supposed to travel ingoingfrom base (not indicated) to the city designated on the card.

There are four series of suit cards of five cards to a series, the cards of one series differing from the corresponding cards of each of the other series only in the name of the city which it bears. For instance, in Fig. 6 the card 6 bears the designation Blue City as at 12'; in Fig. 7 the. card 7 bearing the designation Black Hill and 1n Fig.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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8, the card 8 bears the designation Brownville. The other four cards (not shown) of each of these three series are numbered 2 miles, 3 miles, lmiles, and 5 miles, respectively, but otherwise are identical with their respective series card just described. 4

The four trump cards 11,12, 13 and 14 illustrated in Figs. 9, 10, 11 and 12 are counter or honor cards. They each bear a designation distinguishing' them one from the other and from the suit cards as at 11, 12, 13 and 1l labeled an air ship, Zeppelin, biplane and triplane, respectively. rllhe value of and the manner in which thc various cards are to be played will be apparept from the following brief description of p ay.

The players sitting opposite are partners, work for each others interest and have a common score. After cards are dealt one at a time, each player has the privilege of naming trumps7 The suit named trumps7 becomes superior in value to the other suits, so that the highest card of a trump suit can take any card in all other suits, and can only be taken by a lower card of its own suit. The highest bidder selects a trump and plays it face up on the table. The play passes to the left each player playing a card of the same suit as the one lead if he holds one, if not any card the player' chooses. The player placing ,the card of the lowest value takes the four cards which are called a trick.

If the bidder fails to make the points he bids he is said to be down and it is counted against his score. If cards were all played to the best advantage then the score would be eleven. The six tricks would count siX. The Zeppelin if it took a trick one. Airship-two. Biplane if it took a trick one; triplane if it took a trick one. The total would be eleven.

The four counter cards if properly played count more than the others. For instance theairship is known as the joker card. It has power to take any trick in which it appears. It can take a trump, or may be used as a trump if player so desires. It counts two points beside the trick which it takes. Another counter is the Zeppelin which counts one, and it takes any trick that does not contain a trump. Still another counter is the biplane Which takes any trick (without a trump) that contains a tvvo, and it counts one. Triplane takes any trick (Without a trump) that contains a three and counts one.

Having thus described my invention:

That I claim is:

l. A pack of game cards comprising a plurality of diierent suits, each card of. a suit bearing a numerical and a geographical designation indicating a distance traveled and a point reached respectively, and a plurality of honor cards bearing designations distinguishing them one from the other.

2. A. deck of cards comprising a plurality of different suits, the cards of each suit being distinguished from the cards of the other suits by a dierent geographical designation thereon, and a plurality of honor cards having representations of aeronautical devices thereon, each of said honor cards having an aeronautical device diii'erent from the other said honor cards for a purpose specied.

3. A deck of cards comprising a pluf rality 'of different suits, the cards of each Silit being distinguished from the cards of the other suits by a geographical designation thereon, the cards of each suit being numbered serially, and a plurality of honor In testimony whereof I affix my signature hereto.

NEVA-RAE RUSSELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for iive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

